S2 – 12: There Is No Death

Unobscured

iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild

History, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.7 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Blows fell. Times changed. New voices rose up with answers to the nation’s pressing questions. But through it all, spiritualists worked to create an enduring place for themselves where the spirits could go on speaking.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Unobscured, a production of I Heart Radio and Aaron Minky.
0:10.7	The stage was stripped of adornments.
0:13.1	Maggie promised that her act would be as well.
0:16.3	Finally, the New York Times described the platform as bear and somber, but the crowd
0:22.1	was anything but.
0:23.6	They filled the room with noise.
0:25.4	All of them hissing and shouting before Maggie could even begin.
0:29.9	The press was wild with excitement.
0:32.2	They filled the New York Academy of Music in October of 1888 when Maggie appeared on stage,
0:38.7	just as she had so many times since her childhood in Rochester.
0:42.7	A front page illustrated story in that morning's issue of the New York world ensured the crowd
0:48.1	would pack the hall.
0:51.1	After an opening act that highlighted the tricks used to debunk other mediums, Maggie
0:55.8	arrived on stage.
0:57.7	Still dark-haired in her 50s, she now needed glasses to see the words she'd written for
1:02.4	herself.
1:03.4	Maggie held the lenses up to her eyes and read off a declaration.
1:08.7	Everything she had done for spiritualism over the course of her life was a falsehood.
1:15.7	She had already published a letter in the New York Herald that called spiritualism
1:19.4	a curse and a covering for heartless persons and the vialist miscreants, people who used
1:25.6	it to cloak their evil doings, as she said.
1:29.2	Now she was making the same pronouncements in person.
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